Feeding device for pineapple-slicers.



J. HILL. v FEEDING DEVICE FOR PINEAPPLE SLIGERS. APPLICATION I'ILED JAN. 24, 1914;

1,1 30,819. Patented Mar. 9, 19 15.

2!! o 0 U /0 "J6 7 "JOHN mm, 015 HONOLULU, TERRITORY OF HAWAII, ASSI machines for shclng fruit, and particularly rearward stroke.

. is desirable in such machines that the fruit ing the rock-shaft 8 with the casting 11 in side elevatlon and partly in section a pinet e opposlte direction to that just described,

1 position and between the brackets 9, 10, as and means to actuate said feeding member APPLE COMPANY, LTD., 01 HONOLULU, TERRITORY 01'' HA y THE TERRITORY OF HAWAII.

I M o 1,130,819. Specification of Letters ratent. e Patented Mar. 9, 1915. i i Application filed January 24, 1914. Serial 1T0. 814,143.

T ll who it m r shown. The rear ortion 11 of the castin Be it known that I, JOHN'HILL, a citizen 11 projects upward and is curved, preferabl? of the United States, residing at Honolulu, to the arc of a circle whose center coincides in the county of Honolulu and Territory of with that of the rock-shaft 8, to form a stop. awaii, have.invented certain new and usehe p1tman'12 connects the pin 13, secured ful Improvements in Feeding Devices foreccentrically in the end of the gear shaft 14 description of the invention, such as will y'which the latter receives its motion. The enable others skilled the art to which 1t p1n 13 is so located in the end of the gear appertains to make an use the same. shaft 14 as to'be in its lowest position when hlS lnvention relates to improvements in t e reciprocating head 4 is at the endof its peration, the size to a device for feeding pineapples to that n 0 type of such machines as is described in Letplaced on the trough 5 roll down thereon ters Patent No. 930,021, issued Aug. 3, ,until prevented from further movement by '70 1909, to L. E. Arnold. In pineapple slicing engaging the stop 11. As the slicin mamachines of this type, the reciprocating head chine continues to operate, the pin 13, startreceives a peeled and sized fruit, and during ing from the position shown in Fig. 1, in its forward stroke this fruit encounters a moving upward causes the pitman 12 to plurality of blades and is' sliced thereby. It swing the crank 16 upward, thereby turnbe automaticall and positively fed one at attached. When the stop 11 has thus a time without amage to the fruit. been swung upward sufficiently to clear the The object of my invention is to provide lowest fruit on the trough 5, the fruit on means of this character, which shall be simthe trough proceed to roll downward un-' ple and effective. til the said lowest fruit engages the-curved In the accompanying drawings, forming a casting 11. As the pin 13 now moves part of this specification, Figurel represents downward, the rock-shaft 8 is swung in apple slicing machine embodying my imand the fruit, which has been admitted s5 provements. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the between the curved casting 11 and the same machine. end5 of the trough 5, now drops into the Referring to the drawings, 3 is the body curved end of the reciprocating head 4 and of the machine, and 4 its reciprocating head, is supported by itselongated jaw.4". In the which receives its motion in the manner demeantime, however, the stop 11 has enscribed in the patent above mentioned. It gaged the next succeeding fruit on the will 'be noted however, that the lower jaw 4 trough 5 and has prevented further moveof the reciprocating head 4 is made longer ment of the fruit on the trough until said and projects forward to support the fruit. stop is against swung upward. "The opera- The trough 5, adapted to receive the sized tions are repeated as described.

fruit to be sliced, is supported above the I claim: s

body 3 by the braces 6, 7, and is slightly in- 1. In a pineapple slicing machine, a feed clined to the horizontal so as to cause the trough, a reciprocating member in front of sizedfruit when placed thereon to roll down which the fruit is deposited when so disthe trough toward the feeding position. The charged from said trough, a feeding member forward end 5 of the bottom of the trough pivotally mounted at the discharge end of 5 is bent downward as shown in Fig. 1. The said trough, said member having a concave rock-shaft 8 is journaled transversely in the surface to engage a single fruit and disbrackets 9, 10, secured to opposite sides of I charge it from'the trough and an upwardly the upper portion of the body 3. The castprojecting portion to hold the adjacent fruit ing 11, WhlCh is curved to fit a sized fruit, is in the trough in-pr'oper position to be subsesecured to the rock-shaft 8 over the feeding quently discharged by the concave surface,

in timed relation with said reciprocating member. I In a'pineapple'slicing machine, a reciprocating head provided with a forwardly 5. and upwardly projecting lower jaw adapted to entirely support a fruit, whereby the fruitis reciprocated by the head and supported thereby during its reciprocat1on.

'3. In a pineapple slicing machme, a reciprocating head, a feed trough disposed above the reciprocating head and adapted to discharge fruit in front of the reciprocating headtwhen the same is at the end of its rearward stroke, and a feed controlling member pivotally mounted at the discharge end of said trough and operated in timed relation with the reciprocating head to discharge a single fruit in front of the head at the end of each rearward stroke of the latter.

' 4, In a pineapple slicing machine, a feed trough from which the fruit is discharged downwardly at one end thereof, a reciprodeposited when so discharged from the eating member in front of which the fruit is 4 25 trough, a feeding member pivotally mounted at the discharge end of said trough to swing about a horizontal axis, said member having a concave surface to engage a single fruit and dischargeit downwardly from the trough in front her and an upwardly projecting portion to hold the adjacent fruit in the trough in proper position to be subsequently discharged by the concave surface, and means to actuate said feeding member in timed relation with said reciprocating member.

5. In a machine of the kind described, a reciprocating head provided with a for- Wardly projecting lower aw having an art1- cle-supportmg surface, a portion of which is inclined upwardly to retain the article on the projecting jaw whereby the article is reciprocated by the head and supported thereby'during its reciprocation.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN HILL.

Witnesses H. G. GINAOA, P. H. BURNETTE.

of said reciprocating mem- 

